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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

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.



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Quotes for: courage


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Quotes about courage:


Have courage to use your own reason!





Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.





The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true 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.





Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.





Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.











Quotes for: soul


Quotes

Quotes about soul:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





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





At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.











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Michel de Montaigne also said...


When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.





I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.












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