Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEThe strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you’ll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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