The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men. ✨ Michel de Montaigne…

Michel de Montaigne
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The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator, p.525
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and t … ▶
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1946). The essays
In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want i … ▶
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1915). The essays of Michael, lord of Montaigne

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator, p.525

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