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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
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
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes

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