Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• ~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Satisfaction In Life, Use

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 20

• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Satisfaction In Life, Years

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

• Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Lying, Men

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Lying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

• Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Children, Educational

• It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Atheism, Sticks

• Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.801

• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.901, Delphi Classics

• The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Lying, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.67, Stanford University Press

• Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Lying, Men

• Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strength, Strong, Memories

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.23, Stanford University Press

• What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Mountain, Kind

• It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Wish, I Love Myself

• I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Sitting, Higher

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.535

• A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Liars, Lying, Men

• In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Lying, Opinion

• After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Vices

• The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Betrayal, Lying, Men

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

• Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Color

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