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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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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
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
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
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
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
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
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Beautiful Open Raedymall Soul Thing Universal
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
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.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
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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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
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
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony

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