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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself

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