Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Chastity

Quotes about: Chastity

• A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Chastity, Tempted, Boast

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.884, 谷月社

• An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Chastity, Boast

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

• We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stones, Obedience, Temperance

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.80

• The whole idea we have for their chastity is ridiculous. They would have to become numb and invisible to please us. I don't know whether the exploits of Alexander and Caesar really surpass the resolution of a beautiful young woman, bred up in the light and commerce of our society, who still keeps herself whole. There is no doing so hard as not doing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Ideas, Light

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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