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

Michel de Montaigne

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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
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.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
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
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
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
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
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade

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