The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I fi…

Michel de Montaigne
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2014). Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection, New York Review of Books
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2015). Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays, p.884, 谷月社
For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of … ▶
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2014). Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection, New York Review of Books

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