Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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