Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThose who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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