"I do myself a greater injury in lying……" — Michel de Montaigne
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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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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More Dishonesty Quotes
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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 greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
— Abu Bakr
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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Truth exists; only lies are invented.
— Georges Braque
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
— William Jennings Bryan
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
— Samuel Butler
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in…
— Benjamin Carson
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking…
— Raymond Chandler
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We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns…
— Beyers Naude
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
— Bernard Nathanson
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