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Michel de Montaigne

  • The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.... Michel de Montaigne {view}
  • Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me... Michel de Montaigne {view}