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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
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
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Beautiful Open Raedymall Soul Thing Universal
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
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
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub

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