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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 conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
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
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
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
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
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
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
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
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
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

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