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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

Virtue will not be followed but for herself; and, if we sometimes borrow her mask for some other occasion, she presently pulls it off again.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La vertu ne veut être suivie que pour elle-même; et si on emprunte parfois son masque pour une autre occasion, elle nous l'arrache aussitôt du visage.

German
Die Tugend hat ihr Ziel in sich selbst; wenn wir ihre Maske für einen anderen Zweck borgen, so entlarvt sie uns in der Regel sehr bald.




See also 

See also...



To make her onset worse, malice pretends to be good.

No one can wear a mask for very long.




Quotes for: virtue


Quotes

Quotes about virtue:


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





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.





Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.





The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.





Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.











Quotes for: mask


Quotes

Quotes about mask:


Everything that is profound loves the mask.





Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.





To me men are for what they are, They wear no masks with me.





The mask is torn off, the reality remains.







Quotes

Michel de Montaigne also said...


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





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





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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