7 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Courage

Michel de Montaigne quotes on courage

6. Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

33. How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

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

39. 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.

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.

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