Michel de Montaigne

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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death

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

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death

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

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dreams

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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education

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

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education

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

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failure

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

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faith

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

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family

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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family

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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fear

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