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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Michel de Montaigne

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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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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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Age Criminal Dangerous Educational Gentle Law Leave Libeert One Strict Youth
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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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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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Admire Familiar Few Men
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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