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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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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
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
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Admire Familiar Few Men
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Fear Most Thing
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Desire Knowledge Natural No
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alarm Death Die Me
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Custom Follow Law Make Way World
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Able Event Govern Myself
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Perpetual Saw See World

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