The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMake your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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My trade and art is to live.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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