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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
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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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
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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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World

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