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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

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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

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Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

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I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues. ↗

— Dennis Moore

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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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