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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Michel de Montaigne

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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
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
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
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.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
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
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World

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