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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
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 way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
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
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
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
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why

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