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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
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.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
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
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World

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