Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. "

Michel de Montaigne

Related Quotes:

" There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. "

Michel de Montaigne

" It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. "

Michel de Montaigne

" 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. "

Michel de Montaigne

" One may be humble out of pride. "

Michel de Montaigne

" How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. "

Michel de Montaigne

" 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. "

Michel de Montaigne

" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "

Michel de Montaigne

" There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The thing I fear most is fear. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. "

Michel de Montaigne

" There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. "

Michel de Montaigne

" No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. "

Michel de Montaigne

" I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. "

Michel de Montaigne

" 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. "

Michel de Montaigne

" A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. "

Michel de Montaigne

" He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. "

Michel de Montaigne

" A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. "

Michel de Montaigne

" We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. "

Michel de Montaigne

" There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. "

Michel de Montaigne