#ill

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#duties #felt #first #force #known

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#find #i #less #lust #many

The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#feet #fully #laboratory #middle #operational

In short I will part with anything for you but you. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#i #part #short #will #you

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#depends #find #length #lies #life

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#borrowing #care #i #i am #i care

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#his #ignorance #man #pillow #rest

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#confidence #evidence #favors #god #light

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#extend #fist #friend #guy #hand

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#know #never #often #poet #really