More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
  2. There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
  3. The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
  4. There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
  5. The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
  6. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
  7. The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
  8. There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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