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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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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
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
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
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject

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