In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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