It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. — Quoted

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“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”

Michel de Montaigne · Death

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Michel de Montaigne

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

Family

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Marriage

Michel de Montaigne

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Nature

Michel de Montaigne

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Future