Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAny person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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