There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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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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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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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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