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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
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
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
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
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.
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Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
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

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