I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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