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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Agree Bore Conversation Everybody One Thann
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Alphabet Begin Both Corrupt Covetousness Die Last Nature Vice
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
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
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Doubt Establishment formless Forward Notion Publish Question Seek Truth Unresolved
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Fix Forgot Intensely Memory Nothing Thing Visit
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
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
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Able Event Govern Myself
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

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