Quote of Michel de Montaigne - Valor is stability, not of legs...

Biography - Michel de Montaigne:

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is a French Renaissance writer and philosopher.
Born: 1533 - Died: 1592
Period:
16th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
Michel de Montaigne

Quotes about courage:

Have courage to use your own reason!”
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

courage

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.”
Michel de Montaigne

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain

There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

The courage of Truth, the belief in the power of the spirit, is the first condition of philosophical study.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All about courage...

Quotes about soul:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Augustine of Hippo

Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!”
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

soul

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

All about soul...

Michel de Montaigne also said...

I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

opinion

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

to be

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

anger

There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

My trade and art is to live.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

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