In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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