There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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My trade and art is to live.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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