240 ordspråk av Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Vice leaves, like an ulcer in the flesh, a repentance in the soul which is always scratching itself until it bleeds
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Virtue will have nothing to do with ease . . . It demands a steep and thorny road.
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We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . / We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are
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We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn
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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him
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We have need of very little learning to have a good mind
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We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe
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