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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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All Carcass Just Nothing One Play Shadow Vanity Word World
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
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
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Everywhere Life Lost Nowhere Purpose Soil
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
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
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
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
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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Already Fear Shall Suffer
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
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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All Monstrous Same Say The Thing Will
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Flee From Know Not Search Well
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom

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