There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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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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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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