Quote #109
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More from Michel de Montaigne
- Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
- Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
- So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disor…
- No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
- No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.