Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEven 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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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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