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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Marriage
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
Judgment and Judges
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Poetry and Poets
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Communication
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
Men
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
Death and Dying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
Greed
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
Government
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
Law and Lawyers
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Lies and Lying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
Misfortunes
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Age and Aging
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
Stubbornness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Virtue
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
Self-pity
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
Possessions
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Critics and Criticism
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
Money
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Life and Living
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
Purpose
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Memory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Joy
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
Listening
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Family
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Virtue
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun