If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out...” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“We thought we were tying our marriage-knots more tightly by removing all means of undoing them;22 but the tighter we pulled the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
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