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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
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 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
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
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
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
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
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride

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