“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.”

—  Michel De Montaigne

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(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

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