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.
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 good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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