The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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