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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Michel de Montaigne

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Michel de Montaigne

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Michel de Montaigne

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel de Montaigne

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Michel de Montaigne

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Michel de Montaigne

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Michel de Montaigne

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

Michel de Montaigne

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Michel de Montaigne

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Michel de Montaigne

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel de Montaigne

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Michel de Montaigne

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Michel de Montaigne

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Michel de Montaigne