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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne

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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
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
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
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
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
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 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
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

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