We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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