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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

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#lend #others #yourself

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

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

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#beautiful #open #ready #souls #things

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#borrowing #care #i #i am #i care

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#birds #cage #desperate #equally #get