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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
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
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cat Know Lifetime Much Nine You
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say

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