There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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