There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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