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

Michel de Montaigne

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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
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
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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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Because Elsewhere Every Face Future Inner One Own Rush Want
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Content Contractor Mind Sign Weariness
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life

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