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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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
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
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Head Ignorance Man Pillow Rest Soften
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
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
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 monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
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
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann

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