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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
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
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
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 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
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
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
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing

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