Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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