Michel de Montaigne on writing

He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Few men have been admired by their own domestics.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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