If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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