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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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