Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Education
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.
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I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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