The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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