When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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