I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEFor truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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