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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel de Montaigne

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
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 world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
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
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
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
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
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
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
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
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
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
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
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

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