My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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