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“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.”

Michel De Montaigne

Book II, Ch. 1
Attributed

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

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Despair , Bird

“It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book I, Ch. 9. Of Liars
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Lying , Memory

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

Michel De Montaigne book Essays

Book III, Ch. 5
Essais (1595), Book III

Marriage , Bird , Despair