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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#i #metaphysics #more #myself #other

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. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#aspiring #beyond #content #contraction #going

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#adequately #bother #die #fully #head

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#beginning #both #corrupt #covetousness #devil

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#cat #know #knows #lifetimes #much

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. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#created #entire #exists #higher #image

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#abyss #between #brief #common #common sense

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#away #cried #develops #downs #gone

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

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