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 MONTAIGNEThe finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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 prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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