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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
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
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
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
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride

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