I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ✨ Michel de…

Michel de Montaigne
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1856). The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy, p.86
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated), p.901, Delphi Classics
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ✨ The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. Book by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, p.104, 1989.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.242, Stanford University Press
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2015). Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays, p.884, 谷月社

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1856). The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy, p.86

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