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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
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
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
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
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
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
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Give Him Importance Love Man Reason
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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

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