One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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