It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about 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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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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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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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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