Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
More Quotes from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne:
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet very little.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject we do nothing but write glosses about each other.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Have you known how to take rest You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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