Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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