"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.












There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
More Michel de Montaigne quotes
"A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.
"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and fo...
"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
"Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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