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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
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
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
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
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
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
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
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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

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