For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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