"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows." — Michel de Montaigne
"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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More Bedfellows Quotes
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The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
— Marcel Achard
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Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what…
— Huston Smith
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Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
— Napoleon Hill
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
— Goodman Ace
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Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
— Eric Maisel
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy…
— Mark Haddon
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In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight…
— Annie Lennox
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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
— Groucho Marx
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Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the…
— Steven Pinker
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Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.
— Walt Disney
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Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it…
— Kate Elliott
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