Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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