An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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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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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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