It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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