There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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