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 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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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