Quote #38

I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.

More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.
  2. I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
  3. Saying is one thing and doing is another.
  4. Few men have been admired by their own households.
  5. I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.
  6. Chaque homme porte la forme, entiere de l'humaine condition.
  7. A man may be humble through vainglory.
  8. It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

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