If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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 set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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My trade and art is to live.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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