Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.


Alphonse De Lamartine

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INDIA DE BEAUFORT
My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER
When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER
Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU