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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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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
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
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
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
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
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
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.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
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
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor

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