More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. 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.
  2. I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
  3. How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
  4. He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
  5. I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
  6. He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
  7. He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
  8. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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