15 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Truth

Michel de Montaigne quotes on truth

1. Que sais-je?

2. 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.

18. I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

21. Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

31. Quelle verite que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au dela?

34. A man may be humble through vainglory.

39. 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.

48. 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.

73. He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

75. He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

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

79. I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

85. In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

96. Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

126. 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.