Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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