I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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 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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My trade and art is to live.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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