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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
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
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 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
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
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
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility

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