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.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEUnless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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