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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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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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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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