If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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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 most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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