Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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