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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Day Depend Length Lie Life Make Satisfaction Them Use Value Year
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
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Bother Do Head Job Perfectly She
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
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
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
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Around Dream Eyes Knew Life Love Real Soul
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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Alone Communication Grief Leasure Left Mind Much No One Produce Sprightly
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
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
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
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
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That

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