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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Michel de Montaigne

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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
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
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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 quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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
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
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
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness

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