More from Michel de Montaigne

  1. I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
  2. I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
  3. 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.
  4. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
  5. How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
  6. If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectl…
  7. He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
  8. In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

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