Michel de Montaigne on Veterans Day
1533–1592 France
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould…. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
Essais (1571)
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
Essais (1571)
"Companions," said he [Saturninus], "you have lost a good captain, to make of him a bad general."
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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