It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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