There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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