Michel de Montaigne

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Even 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.

Michel de Montaigne

learning

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

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life

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

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love

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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love

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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marriage

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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marriage

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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marriage

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

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marriage

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.

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nature

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.

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nature

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