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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Michel de Montaigne

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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
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
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
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.
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Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
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

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