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

Michel de Montaigne

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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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
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
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Amuse Cat Her Herself Know More Play Whether
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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 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
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Metaphysic Myself Other Physic Study Subject
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
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

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