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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of

To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences; they always receive me with the same kindness.

Michel de Montaigne
Running, Kindness, Real
Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.93

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne
Sports, Wisdom, Children
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 23, 1595.

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

Michel de Montaigne
Sky, Weather, Clothes
"Complete Essays".

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Michel de Montaigne
Heart, Wine, Elderly
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Michel de Montaigne
Thinking, Blessing, Wealth
Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.354

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Michel de Montaigne
Educational, Mean, Men

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Michel de Montaigne
Solitude, Made, Capacity
Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

Michel de Montaigne
Educational, Choices, Soul

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Michel de Montaigne
Suffering, World, Harmony
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1115, 谷月社

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Education, Teacher

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne
Strength, Strong, Memories
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.23, Stanford University Press

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Michel de Montaigne
Teacher, Children, Educational

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge, Ideas, Pairs
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Knowledge, Secret

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.

Michel de Montaigne
People, Want, Firsts
Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Death, Consistency
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.20, Stanford University Press

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Michel de Montaigne
Perfect, Soul, Quality

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Michel de Montaigne
Kings, War, Medieval War
Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.730

Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

Michel de Montaigne
Taken, Ink And Paper, Long
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.721, Stanford University Press

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Training, Principles
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

Michel de Montaigne
Art, People, Mind

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Michel de Montaigne
Boys, Punishment, Whipping
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.494, Xist Publishing

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

Michel de Montaigne
Women, Good Man, Occupation
Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Michel de Montaigne
Praise, Accounts
Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne
Honesty, Memories, Lying
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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