It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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