I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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