There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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