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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne

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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
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 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
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
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
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women

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