Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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