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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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Another Confidence God Goodness Hood Proof
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
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Edge Give Mind Our Pain Pleasure Sharpness This
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
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
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
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
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
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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Beyond Else Present Rejoice Thee Thing
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Contradiction Go Keep Mad Mankind Myself Some Work Write
The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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Blunder Book Curriculum Page Prank Servant Table Talk
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Alarm Death Die Me
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

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