If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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