If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de MontaigneTags: friendship love marriage
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.
Michel de MontaigneNo man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de MontaigneWe need but little learning to live happily.
Michel de MontaigneOn the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Michel de Montaigne~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
Michel de MontaigneHandling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.
Michel de MontaigneTags: writing
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Michel de MontaigneThere is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
Michel de MontaigneWhen I am attacked by gloomy thoughts,
nothing helps me so much as running to my books.They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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