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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
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
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Greater Miracle Monster Myself never Seen World
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Companion Craggy Facility Reject Require Rough Thorny Virtue Way
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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety

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