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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Michel de Montaigne

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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil

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