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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Answer Express Feel Love Man Myself Urge Wherefore
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak
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
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
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Dangerous Discreetly Know Possessor Use Weapon
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.
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Because Conform FIner Kind Lethargy Once Other Over Sense Soul
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Good Maketh Mind Poor Rich Wretchm Happy
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 life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible

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