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" My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. "
Michel de Montaigne
Never
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" 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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" There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. "
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" No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. "
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" 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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" Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. "
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