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| Michel de Montaigne
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Ambition is not a vice of little people. I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. 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. The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. The world is but a perpetual see-saw. There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. 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. There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. |
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