He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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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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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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