Cloaks Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cloaks Great men Men Use Virtue Weakness
“the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward. As” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Now let me say this: when you're traveling a good cloak is worth more than all of your other possessions put together. If you've… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Hypocrites - they wear gorgeous cloaks lined with lead; pretty outside, awful inside; heavy cloaks force them to behave sedately, although seething within; cloak… — Dante Copy Share Image
“sometimes weakness was a guise, especially if it were worn too conspicuously. Looking defenseless and being defenseless were two very different things in Dark… — Jasper T. Scott Copy Share Image
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
“...in an area such as this the possibility of violence for the sake of robbery or even mere amusement is always something to be… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
“The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Little men,” he once said, “spend their days in pursuit of such things. I know from experience that at the moment of their deaths… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set]. — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
