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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

— Michel de Montaigne

More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
  2. Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
  3. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
  4. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to furth…
  5. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
  6. Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet- the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which die…
  7. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
  8. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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  • morality
  • character
  • virtue
  • temptation

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