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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Avoid Both Condition Dare Nase Seem Them Ugly Worstm Action
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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
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
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
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
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Bear Condition Every Human Man Whole Stam
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
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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Ardent Best Cange One Opinion Proof Stubborn Stupidy
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Family Govern Kingdom Less Little Private Trouble Whole
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
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
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men

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