Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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