More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
  2. 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.
  3. Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
  4. Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
  5. 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…
  6. Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
  7. The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
  8. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

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