If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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