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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
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
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
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
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Cat Know Lifetime Much Nine You
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
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.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
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
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write

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