The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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