It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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