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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
Autobiographer
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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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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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