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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
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
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
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
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
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
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

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