Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEA wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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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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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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