More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
  2. Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.
  3. In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
  4. All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
  5. As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.
  6. He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
  7. Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaise d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.
  8. The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.

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