Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Death does not concern you, neither alive nor dead: alive, because you are; dead, because you are no more.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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It is necessary to lend oneself to others, but to give oneself only to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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I only quote others in order to express my thoughts better.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no present: what we call so is just the point of union between the future and the past.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Our desire despises and abandons what we have in order to chase after what we do not have.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Life is not in itself neither good nor bad, but the place of good or bad, depending on whether man practices one or the other.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

Rosa Montero

Rosa Montero

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We all carry our potential downfall stuck to our heels.

Rosa Montero

Rosa Montero

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Existence is woven from a low-quality material that shrinks with use.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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It seems that our life increases when we can place it in the memory of others: It is a new life that we acquire and find precious.