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«It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it»
«It is not necessity but abundance which produces avarice»
«There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.»
«Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
companion, craggy, facility, rejects, thorny
«Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.»
«Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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Marriage
| Keywords:
cage, vilified, vilifies, vilify
«Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
feebleness, imprint, imprinted, imprints, valetudinarian
«There are defeats more triumphant than victories.»
«Few men have been admired by their own domestic servants»
«The continuous labor of your life is to build the house of death»
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