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 MONTAIGNEWe only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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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 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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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