I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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