It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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