It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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