More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
  2. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
  3. No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
  4. Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
  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. 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.
  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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