In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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 you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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