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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Discipline, Vigor
Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.865
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.