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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
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
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 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.
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Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
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
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
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
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
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entrance Free Market Marriage 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
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
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
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
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

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