I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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