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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
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 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
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
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
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
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony

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