We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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