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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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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
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
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
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
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
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
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
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write

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