Michel de Montaigne

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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

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nature

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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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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sports

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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strength

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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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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truth

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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wisdom

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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wisdom

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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work

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