The land of marriage has this peculiarity that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from it.
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We call that against nature which cometh against custom. But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not According to nature.Michel de Montaigne
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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