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WIST (“Wish I’d Said That!”) is my collection of quotations (wist.info) which I find meaningful, moving, amusing (intended or not), or well-phrased.

Despite the name, this is not just a collection of quotations whose sentiments I agree with (though that’s true for the majority of stuff I collect). In some cases there are ideas that I disagree with, firmly; in those cases, though, I’ve included the quote because I admire the way it’s phrased, or because it’s a classic statement of a particular sentiment, or else I thought it was so absurd that it made me smile just to read it. In short, "Quoting is not (necessarily) endorsing."

One thing I make an effort to do is research and properly cite each quotation I publish. Further sourcing information (and notes and translations) can be found on the WIST website.

This site will serve as a rich-text social media republishing of new and updated quotations from wist.info (since nobody actually goes to blogs any more). I welcome conversation about the quotes I post.

I was previously cross-posting at wist@my-space.social, WISTquote@zirk.us, and wist@diasp.org. More info on the background of my collection here: wist.info/about-wist/

Additional intro material: friendica.world/display/84b6ef…

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yesterday, 4:08 PM

WIST Quotations
yesterday, 4:08 PM

A quotation from Montaigne

And so, live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

[Aussi avez vous beau vivre, vous n’en rabattrez rien du temps que vous avez à estre mort.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943), 1.20]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), "That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]" (1572) [tr. Frame (1943), 1.20] | WIST Quotations

And so, live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. [Aussi avez vous beau vivre, vous n’en rabattrez rien du temps que vous avez à estre mort.

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), "That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]" (1572) [tr. Frame (1943), 1.20] | WIST Quotations

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