Quote #130
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
More from Michel de Montaigne
- There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
- There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
- There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
- There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me…
- 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.
- There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time …