Quote #81

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

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 prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
  3. 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…
  4. 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.
  5. In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
  6. How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
  7. In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table …
  8. He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

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