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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
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
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
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
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
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
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness

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