Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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