It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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