Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAmbition is not a vice of little people.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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