In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAge imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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