A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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