Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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