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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
One may be humble out of pride.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Be Humble May One Pride
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
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
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
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
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.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower 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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
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
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind

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