Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
[Appreciation]
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Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
[Egotism]
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport, than she makes me?
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When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
[Vice]
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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You'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
[Cats]
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