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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
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 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
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
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
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
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
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
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
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
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True

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