We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEAny person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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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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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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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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