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

Flee From Know Not Search Well
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
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
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
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
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
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

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