I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNELend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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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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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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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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