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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.

Michel de Montaigne

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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
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
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Bent Look Matter Merely Oar Se Straight Them Thing Water
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
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
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Adequately Die Fully How Know Nature Spot Tell To What Worry

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