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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
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
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
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
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
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride

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