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Virtue Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under…
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest…
- The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
- As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
- Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
- There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
- I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
- I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
- The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
- Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
- From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
- We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem…
- Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
- If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,…
- There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives…
- Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
- The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
- The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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