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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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" 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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" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "

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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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" Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. "

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" Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. "

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" It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. "

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" I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! "

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" How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. "

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" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "

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" Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. "

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" I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. "

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" I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate. "

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" The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. "

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" My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. "

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" Make 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. "

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" There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. "

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" Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. "

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" It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. "

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" The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. "

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" Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. "

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" A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. "

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" There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. "

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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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" There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. "

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