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

Michel de Montaigne

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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Able Event Govern Myself
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Fear Most Thing
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
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
One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Be Humble May One Pride
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof

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