There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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