I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy trade and art is to live.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I 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.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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