I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe thing I fear most is fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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