Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEI do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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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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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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My trade and art is to live.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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