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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAn untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIf you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHow many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNENo pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEVirtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEMy trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIt is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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