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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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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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
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
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
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
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
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
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
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
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World

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