Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Truth
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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.
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What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.
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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.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.
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