Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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