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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Michel de Montaigne
Horse, Heart, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.157, Stanford University Press

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

Michel de Montaigne
Heart, Too Much, Injustice
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.849, Stanford University Press

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

Michel de Montaigne
Educational, Study, Profit
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne
Profound, Joy, Gravity
Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.313

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

Michel de Montaigne
Respect, Ties, Tree
Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.115

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

Michel de Montaigne
Light, Physicians, Earth
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 37, 1595.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel de Montaigne
Journey, Wind, Decision
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.370, 谷月社

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Success, Truth
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 2, 1595.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

Michel de Montaigne
Inspirational, Strong, Opportunity

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

Michel de Montaigne
Would Be, Way, Glory
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.830, 谷月社

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Character, Winning
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.14, Stanford University Press

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

Michel de Montaigne
War, Victory, Ends

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

Michel de Montaigne
Death, Foundation, Life Is
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Michel de Montaigne
Mind, Wish, Forget
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Michel de Montaigne
Happiness, Beautiful, Soul
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Terrible, Happened

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Michel de Montaigne
Orderliness, Remains, Orderly
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Needs, Ears

To philosophize is to doubt.

Michel de Montaigne
Doubt
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.251, Stanford University Press

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

Michel de Montaigne
Silly, Men, Belief
Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 1, 1595.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Michel de Montaigne
Suffering
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1309, Xist Publishing

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

Michel de Montaigne
Believe, Reality, Giving
Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.145

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Fickle, Vain
Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.2

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Alive, Opinion

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Michel de Montaigne
Women, Cost, Cherish
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.425, 谷月社

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