Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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