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“In marriage, alliances and money rightly weigh at least as much as attractiveness and beauty.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“If I converse with a strong mind and a rough disputant, he presses upon my flanks, and pricks me right and left; his imaginations stir up mine, jealousy, glory, and contention, stimulate and raise me up to something above myself; and acquiescence is a quality altogether tedious in discourse.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Folly is a bad quality; but not to be able to endure it, to fret and vex at it, as I do, is another sort of disease little less troublesome than folly itself; and is the thing that I will now accuse in myself.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“It is taking one's conjectures rather seriously to roast someone alive for them.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Moreover, vulgar and casual opinions are something more than nothing in nature; and he who will not suffer himself to proceed so far, falls, peradventure, into the vice of obstinacy, to avoid that of superstition.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.... The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“for as I know only too well from experience when we lose those we love there is no consolation sweeter than the knowledge of having remembered to tell them everything and to have enjoyed the most perfect and absolute communication with them.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“[Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it, and cheerfully surrender myself, and open my conquered arms as far off as I can discover it; and, provided it be not too imperiously, take a pleasure in being reproved, and accommodate myself to my accusers, very often more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my facility of submitting to it, and this even at my own expense.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Wonder is the foundation of all... Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Why do you judge a man when he is all wrapped up like a parcel? He is letting us see only such attributes as do not belong to him while hiding the only ones which enable us to judge his real worth.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Hearing his howls of outrage, a pair of stormtroopers crossing at the far end of the access hallway changed course to investigate. What they saw within the cell as bits and pieces of red-hot debris came flying out caused them to retreat the way they had come—fast.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“The trooper spoke while staring nervously down the corridor. “Because it’s the right thing to do.” Poe shook his head, not buying it for a second. “Buddy, if we’re gonna do this, we have to be honest with each other.” The trooper stared at him for a long moment. “I need a pilot.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“Yes, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. Hello, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, just Rey.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“There are even a handful who like to collect biological specimens. Those with money collect live ones. Those without money become scientists.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster
“Death displays nothing if not variety in its methods, which are often surprising and sometimes amusing.”
Quote by -Alan Dean Foster