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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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 ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
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
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
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 things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
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
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
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom

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