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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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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
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
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
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
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
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
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
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think

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