Tag: Michel de Montaigne
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Michel de Montaigne
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Michel de Montaigne
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Michel de Montaigne
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Michel de Montaigne
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne