There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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