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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Michel de Montaigne

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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
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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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
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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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly

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