If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Quote by Michel De Montaigne
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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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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
- No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
- A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
- 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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