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Michel de Montaigne

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

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
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"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
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"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream."
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