Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy trade and art is to live.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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