The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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