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2 quotes by Michel de Montaigne · clear filters

Now the end, I take it, is all one, to live at more leisure and at one's ease: but men do not always take the right way.

Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.