We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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