If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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