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The thing I fear most is fear.

Michel de Montaigne

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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
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 quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
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
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 finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Cat Know Lifetime Much Nine You
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
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
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Fear Most Thing

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