Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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