Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf 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.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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