Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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One may be humble out of pride.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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.
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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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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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