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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Michel de Montaigne

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
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
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Except Mind Other Own Speak

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