Michel de Montaigne: It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and th — Michel de Montaigne

It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. — Michel de Montaigne
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness — Michel de Montaigne
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on th — Michel de Montaigne
Si, avons nous beau monter sur des échasses, car sur des échasses encore faut-il — Michel de Montaigne
Oh, you are a very poor soldier — a chocolate cream soldier! — George Bernard Shaw
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in o — William Shakespeare
Who consciously throws himself into the water or onto the knife? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaki — Francis Bacon
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art st — William Shakespeare
In married life, three is company, and two is none. — Oscar Wilde
Je weniger einer, in Folge objektiver oder subjektiver Bedingungen, nötig hat, m — Arthur Schopenhauer
Let us seek the solution of these doubts at the bottom of the inexhaustible well — François Rabelais