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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for 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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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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