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 MONTAIGNEThe most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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 entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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