Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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