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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
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
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
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 public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
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
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me

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