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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
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
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
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
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
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
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
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
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

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