Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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