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 MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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