When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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