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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
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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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
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
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
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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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade

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