Van/examples

Famous quotes containing the words van and/or examples:

“I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)

“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)