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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne

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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.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
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
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
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
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
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
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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
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
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
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
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

Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice

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