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 MONTAIGNEEven 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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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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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 beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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