A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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My trade and art is to live.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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