"We ought to love temperance for itself, and……" — Michel de Montaigne
"We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance."
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Michel de Montaigne
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649 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
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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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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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