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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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