The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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