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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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