If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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