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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Cat Know Lifetime Much Nine You
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action

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