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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World

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