It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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