He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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