It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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