In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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 ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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