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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne

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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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
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
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Beautiful Open Raedymall Soul Thing Universal
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Desire Knowledge Natural No
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
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Art Live Trade
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
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contagious Fear Passion So That

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