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

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
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
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
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
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
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing

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