I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for 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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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