The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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