There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFew men have been admired of their familiars.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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