It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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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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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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