I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEHe who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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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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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
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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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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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