Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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My trade and art is to live.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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