Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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