#ss

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#discreetly #even #how #knows #possessor

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. ↗

— Demi Moore

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#been #egoism #future #god #hidden

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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All lasting business is built on friendship. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

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