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
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
- 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.
- It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
- There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
- Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
- 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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