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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another.
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As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.
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I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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It would be better to have no laws at all than to have them in such profusion as we do.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
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All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Saying is one thing, doing another.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Like rowers, who advance backward.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Few men have been admired by their own domestics.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."
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Michel de Montaigne |
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A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Habit is a second nature.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
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Michel de Montaigne |
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The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
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