I have never seen greater monster or miracle in th — Montaigne

There is scarcely any less bother in the running of a family than in that of an entire state. And domestic business is no less importunate for being less important. Essais (1580, ed. M. Rat, 1958) bk. 1, ch. 39 ♥ 2 Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants. If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor? The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor, causes a war between princes.

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. Abraham Lincoln I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. George Bernard Shaw