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God Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
- Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.
- There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
- Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
- God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
- To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
- God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so…
- God sends the cold according to the coat.
- May God defend me from myself.
- We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by…
- The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
- Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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