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• Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• The conviction of wisdom is the plague of man. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• My reason is not framed to bend or stoop; my knees are. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
• No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...
• I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)...