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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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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
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
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
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
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
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
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

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