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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
– Michel de Montaigne

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  1. When 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. – Michel de Montaigne
  2. I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. – Michel de Montaigne
  3. He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. – Michel de Montaigne
  4. The thing I fear most is fear. – Michel de Montaigne
  5. We have nothing to fear but fear itself – Michel de Montaigne
  6. We should tend our freedom wisely. – Michel de Montaigne
  7. The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. – Michel de Montaigne
  8. No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does. – Michel de Montaigne
  9. The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. – Michel de Montaigne
  10. Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. – Michel de Montaigne
  11. Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together. – Michel de Montaigne
  12. Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves. – Michel de Montaigne
  13. If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. – Michel de Montaigne
  14. Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. – Michel de Montaigne
  15. Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing. – Michel de Montaigne
  16. All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. – Michel de Montaigne
  17. There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger – Michel de Montaigne
  18. Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. – Michel de Montaigne
  19. To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom. – Michel de Montaigne
  20. I…think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so. – Michel de Montaigne
  21. A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne
  22. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne
  23. Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. – Michel de Montaigne
  24. If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. – Michel de Montaigne
  25. friendship is not gold, but it’s more value;friendship is not diamond, but it’s more glory;friendship is not iron, but it’s more strong – suresh kannan kottarathil sk
  26. The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die. – Theodor Reik
  27. Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience? – Todd Stocker
  28. Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  29. When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical. – Anthony Paletta
  30. This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction. – Mark OConnell
  31. Your presence resembles a dirty martini,she only drinks it when she’s thirsty. – Shannon Lynette
  32. I do not care if nobody resembles me. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  33. The reefer ???? is called a ‘roach’ because it resembles a ????roach-¦ ????roach-¦ ????roach-¦ – Hunter S Thompson
  34. Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. –Stephanie Plum – Janet Evanovich
  35. Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. – Frank Delaney
  36. Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship -“ never. – Charles Caleb Cotton
  37. It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  38. Marriage is love put to it’s ultimate test – the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage. – Carew Papritz
  39. Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge. – Seneca
  40. The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady. – Thomas Moore

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