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

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Desire Knowledge Natural No
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
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
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
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
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
The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
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
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak

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