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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Michel de Montaigne

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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
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
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife

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