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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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