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"We are all framed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly that is the first law of nature"

Translations

“A straight oar looks bent in the water.”

Michel de Montaigne

“The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.”

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”

FEATURED QUOTES

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery”

“Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.”

“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful”

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

“Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.”

“I never lose. I either win or learn.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”