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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
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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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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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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