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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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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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
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
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient

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