There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNERejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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 passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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