In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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