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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Playing Games, Serious
Essais bk. 1, ch. 23 (1580)

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

Michel de Montaigne
Determination, Children, Educational
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

Michel de Montaigne
Art, Children, Philosophy
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

Michel de Montaigne
Sweet, Children, Compassion

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

Michel de Montaigne
Family, Mother, Children

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Wife, Muse
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.293, Stanford University Press

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

Michel de Montaigne
Education, Children, Freedom
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.123, Stanford University Press

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Father, Parent
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.623, Delphi Classics

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Father, Inheritance
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

Michel de Montaigne
Hope, Children, Thinking

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Children, Kids

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Revenge, Father

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Father, Broken
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.280, Stanford University Press

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

Michel de Montaigne
Art, Children, Educational

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

Michel de Montaigne
Business, Children, Men

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.

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

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

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Michel de Montaigne
Sports, Running, Children
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.416, 谷月社

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