The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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