Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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