Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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One may be humble out of pride.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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