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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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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
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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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
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 way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
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
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
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer

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