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Michel de Montaigne

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“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”— Michel de Montaigne
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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. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.”— Michel de Montaigne
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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.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“My trade and art is to live.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”— Michel de Montaigne