Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEIn true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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