Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Ethics
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Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
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If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
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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.
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