I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEOf all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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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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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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