To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.

Michel Montaigne
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  1. I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike–injecting a little love?' He snorted. 'Through violence, of course, like all religious reformers. - L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  2. Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. Reforms should begin at home and stay there. - Anonymous

  4. At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't. - Clarence S. Darrow

  5. We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Quotes By Michel Montaigne
  1. Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

  2. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

  3. There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

  4. No one is exempt from talking nonsense the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

  5. To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.

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