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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
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
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
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.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
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
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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