If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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