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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
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 are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
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
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
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
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub

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