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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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
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
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
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
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
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

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