Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Family

4 quotes

  1. Few men have been admired by their own households.

  2. 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.

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

  4. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

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