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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 world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
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
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
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
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
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise

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