In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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