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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
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
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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
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
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.
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Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole

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