It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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 world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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