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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
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
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
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
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
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
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

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