A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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