Quote #39
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
More from Michel de Montaigne
- I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
- Few men have been admired by their own households.
- There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.
- Chaque homme porte la forme, entiere de l'humaine condition.
- Saying is one thing and doing is another.
- It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
- I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.
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