Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.
Michel de MontaigneTags: hypocrisy of-experience
For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes.
Michel de MontaigneRien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance que le désir de l'oublier.
Michel de MontaigneQue sçay-je? (What do I know?)
Michel de MontaigneTodos los días van hacia la muerte, el último la alcanza.
Michel de MontaigneTags: philosophy death muerte filosofia michel-de-montaigne
To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.
Michel de MontaigneIl n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.
(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)
Tags: goodness guilt actions privacy laws thoughts
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de MontaigneThere is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Michel de MontaigneTags: learning philosophy lifelong-learning socrates
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."
"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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