In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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