Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Author: Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.