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Michel de Montaigne

"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."

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"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."

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"Let the beauty of sunrise, keep your heart warm."

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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

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"Life is a natural phenomenon " and by mystifying it, one only disgraces its natural beauty."

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"Every flower displays its beautiful colours in autumn."

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"Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature."

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"Every good tree shall bear fruits in the sacred season."

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"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."
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"The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre."
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"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
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"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"
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"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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