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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Communication Pleasure Savor Without
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
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
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
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
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
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
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor

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