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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne

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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Already Fear Shall Suffer
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
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
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Acquit All Death Obligation Say
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Perpetual Saw See World
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Desire Knowledge Natural No
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
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
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
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
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
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
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

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