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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Michel de Montaigne

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
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
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
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
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
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
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
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
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
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
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
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
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
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
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
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
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
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.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action

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