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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Michel de Montaigne

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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
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
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way 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
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
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
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
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife

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