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

Michel de Montaigne

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
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
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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Flee From Know Not Search Well
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
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
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life

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