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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
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
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
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
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

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