The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about 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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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