The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Quote by Michel De Montaigne
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
- The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
- There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
- Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
- I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
- In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Best Quotes
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.