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One may be humble out of pride.

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
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
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
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
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
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon

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