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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 Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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