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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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Admire Familiar Few Men
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Flee From Know Not Search Well
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
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
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
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 you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
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
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.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
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 the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind

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