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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
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
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
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
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
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
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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

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