The thing I fear most is fear.
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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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