Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMarriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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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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