If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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