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My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Admire Familiar Few Men
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
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
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
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
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
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
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
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
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom

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