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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
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
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
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
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
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
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
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

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