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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

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Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. ↗

— Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

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