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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.

Michel de Montaigne

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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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
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
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 pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
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
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise

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