I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt 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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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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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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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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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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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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