Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The 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.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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