Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impat…

Michel de Montaigne
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Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Donald Murdoch Frame (1963). Essays and Selected Writings
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
The thing I fear most is fear. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.53, Stanford University Press
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
The most universal quality is diversity. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1872). All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, p.656
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John … ▶

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, Donald Murdoch Frame (1963). Essays and Selected Writings

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