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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my stu...
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to cons...
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones...
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We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Wh...
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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those...
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of m...
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To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among ...
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Those who have likened our life to a dream were more right, by chance, than they realized. We are awake while sleeping, and waking sleep.
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There is nothing like arousing appetite and affection; otherwise all you make out of them is asses loaded with books.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived.
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The mayor and Montaigne have always been two, with a very clear separation. For all of being a lawyer or a financier, we must not ignore the k...
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more...
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The corruption of the age is produced by the individual contribution of each one of us; some contribute treachery, others injustice, irreligio...
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some people have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it...
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him order the architec...
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Myself now and myself a while ago are indeed two; but when better, I simply cannot say. It would be fine to be old if we traveled only toward ...
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Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone...
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and m...
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In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
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