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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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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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See 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
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
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

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