The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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