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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
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
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Perpetual Saw See World
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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 passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Contagious Fear Passion So That
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
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
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
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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