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Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
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
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
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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Borrow Care Much Myself Other Rich
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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Compare Dream Life Right Sleep Wake
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
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue

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