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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne

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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
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
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
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
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
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
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.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
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
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think

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