I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it 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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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