The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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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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