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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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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
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Cat Know Lifetime Much Nine You
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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
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
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
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
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 are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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

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