More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
  2. 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…
  3. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
  4. 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 …
  5. There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
  6. Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
  7. There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
  8. 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

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