The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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