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To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.
– Michel de Montaigne

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  3. Puberty corrupts – that’s a fact, and it corrupts without consent -“ that’s the concern. – Mohit Parikh
  4. If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision. – MF Moonzajer
  5. Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. – Michel de Montaigne
  6. All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. – Michel de Montaigne
  7. No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. – Flannery OConnor
  8. He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)… – George Orwell
  9. I’m an atheist. I wouldn’t even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist. – Nadine Gordimer
  10. When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. – Michel de Montaigne
  11. I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. – Michel de Montaigne
  12. He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. – Michel de Montaigne
  13. The thing I fear most is fear. – Michel de Montaigne
  14. We have nothing to fear but fear itself – Michel de Montaigne
  15. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. – Michel de Montaigne
  16. The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. – Michel de Montaigne
  17. No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does. – Michel de Montaigne
  18. The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. – Michel de Montaigne
  19. Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together. – Michel de Montaigne
  20. Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves. – Michel de Montaigne
  21. If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. – Michel de Montaigne
  22. Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. – Michel de Montaigne
  23. Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing. – Michel de Montaigne
  24. There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger – Michel de Montaigne
  25. Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. – Michel de Montaigne
  26. I…think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so. – Michel de Montaigne
  27. A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing. – Michel de Montaigne
  28. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne
  29. Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. – Michel de Montaigne
  30. If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. – Michel de Montaigne
  31. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
  32. An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little. – Caitlyn Paige
  33. A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards…in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others. – Ayn Rand
  34. It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism. – William R Bowen
  35. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own gl???, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. – William Shakespeare
  36. How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green
  37. Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business. – John C Maxwell
  38. That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will. – John Fowles
  39. I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. – GK Chesterton
  40. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher

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