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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Build Ceaseless Death House Labour Life
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Does Face Imprint Mind More Rinkle
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
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
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Could Fool Fortune Lucky Made Make See Wise
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Entrance Free Market Marriage Nothing
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
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 are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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More Some Defeat Triumphant Victory
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Acquit All Death Obligation Say
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Better Except Mind Other Own Speak

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