How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Quote by Michel De Montaigne
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Michel De Montaigne Quotes
- How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
- 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.
- My trade and art is to live.
- Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
- It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
- The thing I fear most is fear.
- I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Best Quotes
- Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
- A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
- Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
- Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.