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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
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.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
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
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
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer

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