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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Michel de Montaigne

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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
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
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
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
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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 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
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
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

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