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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne

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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
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
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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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
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
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.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
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 little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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