More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.
  2. All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
  3. Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
  4. He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
  5. In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
  6. The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
  7. As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.
  8. Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

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