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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
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
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
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
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
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
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why

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