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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, nor to dispute; forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor.

Michel de Montaigne

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?

Michel de Montaigne

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Michel de Montaigne

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

Michel de Montaigne

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Michel de Montaigne

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Michel de Montaigne

A little of all things, but nothing of everything, after the French manner.

Michel de Montaigne