"He who is not very strong in memory……" — Michel De Montaigne
"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."
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Michel De Montaigne
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649 Quotes by Michel De Montaigne
Michel De Montaigne has 649 quotes on this site.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against…
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care…
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that…
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth…
— Pietro Aretino
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
— Marcus Aurelius
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