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

Michel de Montaigne

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
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
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
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
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
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
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
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
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
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle

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