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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Michel de Montaigne

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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Better Business Do Let Nature Permit She Understand We
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
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Better Express Myself Only Other Quote
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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Friendship Good Love Marriage Rather Resemble Such Thing
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Beautiful Open Raedymall Soul Thing Universal
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
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

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