Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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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 there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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