"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Age and Aging
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

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"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."

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"But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature."

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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

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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."

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"Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into."

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"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly."

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"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."

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"There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state."

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"The thing I fear most is fear."

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"I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of."

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"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

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"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."

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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."

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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."

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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

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"No wind favors him who has no destined port."

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"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."

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"To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.."

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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 not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice."

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"Habit is second nature."

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"The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most."

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"I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy."

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"My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul."

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"No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged."

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"Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens."

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"The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise."

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"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."

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"It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments."

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"We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him."

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"I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so."

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"It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many."

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"It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities."

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"Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself."

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie."

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"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."

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