I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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 true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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