"An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity" — Michel De Montaigne

"An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity"

— Michel De Montaigne

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649 Quotes by Michel De Montaigne

Michel De Montaigne has 649 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

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More Boast Quotes

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. — Aeschylus
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book… — John le Carre
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote
Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. — Neil Kinnock
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. — Michel de Montaigne
I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ...… — Caitlin Moran
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the… — George Washington
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know… — Leonardo da Vinci
Boasts are wind and deeds are hard. — Isaac Asimov

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