Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.Michel de Montaigne
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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