If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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