Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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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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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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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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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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