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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

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
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
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
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
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
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.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
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

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