If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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