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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Michel de Montaigne

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
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
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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
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
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
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
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
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
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say

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