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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
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
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
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
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
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore

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