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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
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
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
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
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
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
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
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
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 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
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
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
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
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
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
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
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 most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing

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