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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.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
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
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
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
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
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

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