It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as ot…

Michel de Montaigne
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It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided. ✨ Michel de Monta … ▶
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2013). Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays, p.132, Courier Corporation

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

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