He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. — 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 Image
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 Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
![“[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make…” quote by Michel de Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee5/michel-de-montaigne-142_accused_i-n-my-country-when-they-would-say-a-man_2773372.jpg)
