Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Michel de Montaigne
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More quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
- There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
- My trade and art is to live.
- Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
- Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.