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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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never s...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dis...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most s...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

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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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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