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

Michel de Montaigne

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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
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contagious Fear Passion So That
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Flee From Know Not Search Well
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
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
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Art Live Trade

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