Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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 confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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