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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Michel de Montaigne

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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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Love Other Yourself
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Communication Pleasure Savor Without
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alarm Death Die Me

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