Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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