What did Michel de Montaigne mean by: I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France Copy
+ Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Malice, Poison, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Communication, Friendship, Vigor, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ No noble thing can be done without risks. Feraz Zeid, August 14, 2023December 12, 2023, Michel de Montaigne, Noble, Risk, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation! Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Reputation, Survival, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Wine, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Contradiction, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
+ Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Michel de Montaigne, Judgment, Memories, Strong, 0 - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
