The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. ✨ Mich…

Michel de Montaigne
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a, p.313
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). E … ▶
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