There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
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The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
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Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
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Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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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.
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