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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
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
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
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
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will

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