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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Communication Pleasure Savor Without
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Perpetual Saw See World
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
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Ashamed Let Not Speak Think
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
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
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Christianity Country Native Perigold Same Title
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Activity Children Game Minded Most Note Play Seen Serious Should
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Brain Against Good Other Polish Rub
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Custom Follow Law Make Way World
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
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Bird Cage Desperate Get Inside Like Marriage One Out Outside Quality See
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
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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Himself Loose Man Nuthing Wise
My trade and art is to live.
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Art Live Trade
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Boast Cannot Chastity Her Untempted Women
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Certain Cheerfulness Most Sign Wisdom
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Because Was Can Love More Press Say Why
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
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
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
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Courage Generous Most Proudest Strangest True Virtue
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition Little People Vise

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