Quote #76

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
  2. I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
  3. He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
  4. He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
  5. I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
  6. Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
  7. Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
  8. I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

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