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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Michel de Montaigne

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
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
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
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
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
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann

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