I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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