Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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