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 MontaigneMots clés 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.
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To 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.
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There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.
Michel de MontaigneMots clés living-well the-good-life
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de MontaigneMots clés humor truth expression irony quoting
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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