Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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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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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.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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