There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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