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
- I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
- A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
- Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
- How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
- The thing I fear most is fear.
- Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
- There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
- If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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- Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
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