The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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