#co

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#farewell #friend #however #mind #offended

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#beautiful #build #children #commonly #considering

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#honesty #honesty is #integrity #light #others

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#comes #communication #does #grieve #i

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#conversation #everybody #more #than #where

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#courage #legs #soul #stability #valor

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #could #expressed #find #give

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#even #i #much #myself #ordinary

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#any #me #pleasure #savor #without