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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
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
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
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
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
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Desire Knowledge Natural No
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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Able Event Govern Myself
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich

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