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One may be humble out of pride.

Michel de Montaigne

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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 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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

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
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
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
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
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul

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