Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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 a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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