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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. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#birds #cage #desperate #equally #get

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#cannot #chastity #her #woman

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#how #looks #matters #merely #oar

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#much #ought #sees #wise #wise man

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #could #expressed #find #give

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#condition #every #every man #human #human condition

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fools #fortune #lucky #made #make

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#criminal #how #i #many #more

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ↗