It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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