I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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