"I speak the truth not so much as……" — Michel de Montaigne
"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
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Michel de Montaigne
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then…
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage…
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang…
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A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith…
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style,…
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O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known,…
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If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should…
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Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
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