#ld

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

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#believe #could #criteria #i #i believe

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#effect #more #perhaps #receive #should

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#delights #does #earlier #earned #easy

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

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#i #miracle #monster #myself #never

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

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#dream #eyes #gave #him #his

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#children #deemed #most #noted #plays