“I want death to find me planting my cabbage”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“It is not death that alarms me, but dying.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Confidence in another person’s virtue is no light evidence of your own.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Communication
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“All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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“Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.”
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Value
