Cat Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“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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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have…

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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never…

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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as…

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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

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The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,…

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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world…

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Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only…

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There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

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