When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOne may be humble out of pride.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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