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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
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
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
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
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann

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