Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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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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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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