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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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
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 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
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
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women

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