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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne

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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See 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
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
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
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Natural No
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
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
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
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
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
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
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

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