My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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