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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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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
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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
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
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Being Despise Infirmity Most Our Savage
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Enough Feel Good Man Memory never Should Unless Venture
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Be Can Men Much Ought See Wise
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Article Fable Faith Held Many Thing Today Yesterday
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
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
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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Confidence Honesty Integrity Light One Other Own Testimony
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
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

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