More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
  2. The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this l…
  3. The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
  4. The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
  5. The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
  6. 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…
  7. The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
  8. Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

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