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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
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.
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Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
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
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself

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