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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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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
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
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
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
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 life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
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
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
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

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