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 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.
- It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
- Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- 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.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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