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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
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
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
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
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
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

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