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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
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
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
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
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
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
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Beautiful Open Raedymall Soul Thing Universal
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
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
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
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
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

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