A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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