More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
  2. Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
  3. No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
  4. Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
  5. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
  6. Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
  7. Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
  8. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

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