There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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