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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
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.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
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
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote

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