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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne

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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
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
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
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
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write

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