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

Michel de Montaigne

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
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
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
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
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
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved

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