An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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 nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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