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.
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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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