Michel Eyquem De Montaigne ( 10 of 10 )
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war read more
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
