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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Fear Most Thing
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
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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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient

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