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.
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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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