Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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