Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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 way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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