#eve

I never invite idiots to my house. ↗

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ↗

#farewell #friend #however #mind #offended

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#i #miracle #monster #myself #never

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#comes #communication #does #grieve #i

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#conversation #everybody #more #than #where

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#full #happened #life #misfortunes #most

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fixed #life #lost #nowhere #purpose

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗