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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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
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
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
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
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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
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
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing

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