Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Time
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I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
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