"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She……" — Michel de Montaigne
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
—
Michel de Montaigne
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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.
See all 649 quotes by Michel de Montaigne »
More Companion Quotes
This quote is filed under Companion Quotes,
one of 689 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
— Saint Augustine
-
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
-
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
— Francis Bacon
-
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or…
— Alan Ball
-
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual…
— Isaac Barrow
-
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she…
— Francis Beaumont
-
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
-
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I…
— Buffalo Bill
-
People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down…
— Linda Blair
-
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my…
— Erma Bombeck
-
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
— Daniel Boone
See all 689 Companion Quotes »