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

Michel de Montaigne

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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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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

Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cat Know Lifetime Much Nine You
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alarm Death Die Me
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
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

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