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" The world is but a perpetual see-saw. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

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" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "

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" It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. "

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" Ambition is not a vice of little people. "

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