Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Sincerity
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.
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There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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