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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.

Michel de Montaigne

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
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

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