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State Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene.
- Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
- Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by…
- Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the…
- There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
- The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila