It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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