Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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 world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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