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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Desire Knowledge Natural No
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Love Other Yourself
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul

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