It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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