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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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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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Able Event Govern Myself
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
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
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World

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