A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and 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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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