Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de MontaigneIn general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.
Michel de MontaigneLe monde n’est qu’une balançoire perpétuelle. Toutes choses y balancent sans cesse.
Michel de MontaigneNo wind favors he who has no destined port.
Michel de MontaigneLet us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
Michel de MontaigneTags: nature
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
Michel de MontaigneTo compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again...books which I have read carefully a few years before. I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it.
Michel de MontaigneThere is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.
Michel de MontaigneTags: living-well the-good-life
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de MontaigneTags: humor truth expression irony quoting
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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