Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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 confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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