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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Love Other Yourself
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
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Anything Book Education Good Hand True
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Able Event Govern Myself

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