A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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