#is

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#been #cure #disease #doctor #health

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#germany #natives #same #title

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#delights #does #earlier #earned #easy

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

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#certain #day #death #exceeding #fine

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#despises #diverted #entertain #fellows #i

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#depends #find #length #lies #life

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#forget #intensely #memory #nothing #thing

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#honesty #honesty is #integrity #light #others

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#against #brain #good #others #our