I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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