In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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