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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

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
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
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
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
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.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
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
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No

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