I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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