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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
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
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
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
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
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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
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
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
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
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
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
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
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 are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
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
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
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
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
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof

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