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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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
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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
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
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
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.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor

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