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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Dare Grow Little More Much Older Speak Truth Would
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
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
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
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
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise

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