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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
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
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
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
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World

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