There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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