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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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