Michel de Montaigne | work
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Michel de Montaigne | truth
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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Michel de Montaigne | truth
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.
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Michel de Montaigne | strength
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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Michel de Montaigne | sports
For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Michel de Montaigne | sports
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.
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Michel de Montaigne | nature
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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