The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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