Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEStubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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The prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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