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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
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
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
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
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
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
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
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
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
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Complain Much Myself Ordinary People Speak Themselves Think
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World

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