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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Michel de Montaigne

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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
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
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety

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