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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More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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