Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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