A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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