Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Character
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path...is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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.