My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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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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