Celibacy Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.”

Michel de Montaigne

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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

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The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,…

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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world…

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Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

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There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

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