The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some me…

Michel de Montaigne
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.67, Stanford University Press
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.
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