Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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My trade and art is to live.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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