Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWe are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
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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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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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I 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.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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