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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.

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.

~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

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

Michel de Montaigne
God, Lying, Men

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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