Sublime

Soit dit en passant, est-ce que vous connaissez l’essai de Montaigne sur la mort, dans lequel il recommande de vivre dans une chambre dont la fenêtre donne sur un cimetière ? Car pour lui, cela permet de bien garder en tête les priorités de la vie. Les cimetières vous inspirent-ils le même sentiment ? »

The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Past a certain level of income, what you need is just what sits below your ego.

He observed that humans have many ‘higher’ needs that are in fact very sensible and good, and yet that currently lie outside of capitalist enterprise: among these, our need for education, for self-understanding, for beautiful cities and for rewarding social lives.

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The man to whom nature and fate have granted the blessing of wisdom, will be most anxious and careful to keep open the fountains of happiness which he has in himself; and for this, independence and leisure are necessary. To obtain them, he will be willing to moderate his desires and harbor his resources, all the more because he is not, like others,