[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

Mots clés freedom marriage relationships cages matrimony single married-life captivity

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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

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Mots clés judgement memory

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Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Michel de Montaigne

Mots clés curiosity pride scourge

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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.

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I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Michel de Montaigne

Mots clés books

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Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

Michel de Montaigne

Mots clés self-awareness

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Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

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Mots clés self

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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

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Mots clés mind conversation

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