Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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