Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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