Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Youth
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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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What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.
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How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?
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