The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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 is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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