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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Michel de Montaigne

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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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
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
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
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

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