If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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 should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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