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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
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
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
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
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That

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