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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
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
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.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
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
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
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
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World

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