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“There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.” quote by Michel de Montaigne — Download Open image

“There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.”

Michel de Montaigne

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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

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Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

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There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

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Style is the outcome of constraint.

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The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

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Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World…

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