The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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