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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
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
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
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
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
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
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
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
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
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
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
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That

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