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«He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying»
«I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict»
«Few men have been admired by their own domestics»
«We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn»
«All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly»
«When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never»
«Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of one's own»
«Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens»
«There is, in public affairs, no state so bad, provided it has age and stability on its side, that it is not preferable to change and disturbance.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
disturbance, disturbances, stability, state of affairs
«But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.»
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