There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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My trade and art is to live.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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