7 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Character

Michel de Montaigne quotes on character

27. The easy, gentle, and sloping path...is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

34. A man may be humble through vainglory.

55. Ambition is not a vice of little people.

56. An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

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

121. The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

126. 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.