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Michel de Montaigne : So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation. # Danger

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Galileo Galilei : " I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they are impassable, immutable, inalterable, etc.: as conversely, I hear it esteemed a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, and mutable. It is my opinion that the earth is very noble and admirable by reason of the many and different alterations, mutations, and generations which incessantly occur in it. And if, without being subject to any alteration, it had been one great heap of sand, or a mass of jade, or if, since the time of the deluge, the waters freezing which covered it, it had continued an immense globe of crystal, wherein nothing had ever grown, altered, or changed, I should have esteemed it a wretched lump of no benefit to the Universe, a mass of idleness, and in a word superfluous, exactly as if it had never been in Nature. The difference for me would be the same as between a living and a dead creature. I say the same concerning the Moon, Jupiter, and all the other globes of the Universe. The more I delve into the consideration of the vanity of popular discourses, the more empty and simple I find them. What greater folly can be imagined than to call gems, silver, and gold noble, and earth and dirt base? For do not these persons consider that if there were as great a scarcity of earth as there is of jewels and precious metals, there would be no king who would not gladly give a heap of diamonds and rubies and many ingots of gold to purchase only so much earth as would suffice to plant a jessamine in a little pot or to set a tangerine in it, that he might see it sprout, grow up, and bring forth such goodly leaves, fragrant flowers, and delicate fruit? It is scarcity and plenty that makes things esteemed and despised by the vulgar, who will say that there is a most beautiful diamond, for it resembles a clear water, and yet would not part from it for ten tons of water. These men who so extol incorruptibility, inalterability, and so on, speak thus, I believe, out of the great desire they have to live long and for fear of death, not considering that, if men had been immortal, they would not have come into the world. These people deserve to meet with a Medusa's head that would transform them into statues of diamond and jade, that so they might become more perfect than they are. " # Danger

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Michel de Montaigne : " So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation. " # Danger

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Edward Dahlberg : " Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. " # Danger

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Charles Evans Hughes : " Time has shown how illusory are alliances of great powers so far as the maintenance of peace is concerned. In considering the use of international force to secure peace, we are again brought to the fundamental necessity of common accord. If the feasibility of such a force be conceded for the purpose of maintaining adjudications of legal right, this is only because such an adjudication would proceed upon principles commonly accepted, and thus forming part of international law, and upon the common agreement to respect the decision of an impartial tribunal in the application of such principles. This is a limited field where force is rarely needed and where the sanctions of public opinion and the demands of national honor are generally quite sufficient to bring about acquiescence in judicial awards. But in the field of conflicting national policies, and what are deemed essential interests, when the smoldering fires of old grievances have been fanned into a flame by a passionate sense of immediate injury, or the imagination of peoples is dominated by apprehension of present danger to national safety, or by what is believed to be an assault upon national honor, what force is to control the outbreak? Great powers agreeing among themselves may indeed hold small powers in check. But who will hold great powers in check when great powers disagree? " # Danger

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Mahatma Gandhi : " Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. " # Danger

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Johann G Seume : " Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. " # Danger

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Quintus Ennius : " The idle mind knows not what it wants. " # Danger

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Philip Dormer Stanhope : " Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. " # Danger

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Jerome K Jerome : " It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. " # Danger

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Jeremy Collier : " Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. " # Danger

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Samuel Johnson : " As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. " # Danger

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Michel de Montaigne: " The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure." # Arts and Artists

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Michel de Montaigne: " No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately." # Critics and Criticism

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Michel de Montaigne: " Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." # Memory

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Michel de Montaigne: " Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee." # Love

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Michel de Montaigne: " Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself." # Borrowing

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Michel de Montaigne: " I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can." # Translation

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Michel de Montaigne: " Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." # Government

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Michel de Montaigne: " Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be." # Science and Scientists

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Michel de Montaigne: " Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do." # Business

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Michel de Montaigne: " The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will." # Life and Living # Lies and Lying # Happiness

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