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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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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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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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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Every movement reveals us.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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