Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThere is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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