I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The way of truth is one and artless: the way of private gain and success in such affairs as we are entrusted… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Truth for us nowadays is not what is, but what others can be brought to accept: just as we call money not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
