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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
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
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
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
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
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
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
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
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water

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