There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEConfidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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