If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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My trade and art is to live.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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