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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Condemnation Crime Criminal More Than Witness
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Affection Behaviour Frame Grace Imprint Infancy Instruction Keeper Learn Nurse Respect Sport
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Bedfellow Fame never Tranquility
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
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Courtesy Much Often Seenm People Tiresome Uncivil
We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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Knowledge Length Life Make Them Value Wisdom
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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Forth Humble I Set Inglorious Life Matter Soes
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
The thing I fear most is fear.
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Fear Most Thing
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Between God Husband Lind Marriage Wife
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Argument Command Establish Noise Reason Show Weak
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
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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More Obvious Perhaps Vanity Write
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Action Children Deem Most Note Serious Sport Truly
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Conscience Labour Leave Memory Only Stuff Understanding Unfurnish Void
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
One may be humble out of pride.
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Be Humble May One Pride
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Been Full Happen Life Misfortune never Terrible
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Another Confidence Confident Evidence Favor God Man Own Such Virtue Willing

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