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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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My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Art Live Trade
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Cat Know Lifetime Much Nine You
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
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
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
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
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
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
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
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
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
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing

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