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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
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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