If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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