There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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