If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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 way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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