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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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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. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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