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

Michel de Montaigne

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
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
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
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
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
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
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
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
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

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