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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Michel de Montaigne

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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
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
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
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
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
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
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
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
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.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
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
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Beautiful Open Raedymall Soul Thing Universal
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
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
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
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

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