A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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