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“I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”
Montaigne models the wise approach of pausing to examine rather than rushing to conclude.
“The soul that has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
“No man can have patience who has not strong passions.”
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”