Michel de Montaigne on Family
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne, catalogued under family, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #158465: "It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."
Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #29311: "Few men have been admired by their own households."
5 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne on Family
"It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."
"Few men have been admired by their own households."
"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
"I am angry at the custom of forbidding children to call their father by the name of father, and to enjoin them another, as more full of respect and reverence, as if nature had not sufficiently provided for our authority. We call Almighty God Father, and disdain to have our children call us so. I have reformed this error in my family.——And 'tis also folly and injustice to deprive children, when grown up, of familiarity with their father, and to carry a scornful and austere countenance toward them, thinking by that to keep them in awe and obedience; for it is a very idle farce that, instead of producing the effect designed, renders fathers distasteful, and, which is worse, ridiculous to their own children."