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 not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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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