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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

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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
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
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
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
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
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alarm Death Die Me
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
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
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
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
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Beautiful Open Raedymall Soul Thing Universal
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
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
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether

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