If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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