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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Michel de Montaigne

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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Love Other Yourself
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
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
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
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
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
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
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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
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
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
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
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor

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