"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
― Michel de Montaigne
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Life
More From Michel de Montaigne
- "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
- "Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."
- "Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."
More In Life
- "The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body."― Mahatma Gandhi
- "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."― Henry Ford
- "Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."― Ralph Waldo Emerson