A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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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.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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