There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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