If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOne may be humble out of pride.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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