Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Truth
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Que sais-je?
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Je veux qu'on me voit en ma facon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans etude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins...Je suis moi-meme la matiere de mon livre.
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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
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Quelle verite que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au dela?
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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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.
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For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.