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
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
- 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.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
- The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Best Quotes
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
- Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.