I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEShe will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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