Honor Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

10 Honor quotes by Michel de Montaigne

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Montaigne’s reflections treat honor as a mirror for our imperfections, inviting quiet contemplation. This modest set of ten quotes showcases his reflective style and timeless curiosity.

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“A person of honor chooses to loss his honor rather than his consicience”

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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

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How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most…

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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of…

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I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper…

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If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the…

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It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so…

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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never…

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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as…

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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

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The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,…

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