In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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