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

Michel de Montaigne

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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
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
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
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
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
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
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
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
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony

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