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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
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
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
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Cat Know Lifetime Much Nine You
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
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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
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 way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing
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

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