Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorThose who are not sure of their memory should refrain from lying.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorThe public good requires betraying, lying, and massacring.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe heads of the greatest men shrink when they come together, and where there are more sane people is also where there is less sanity.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe Christian religion, which seems to have no other purpose than the happiness of the afterlife, also makes us happy in this life.
Thomas Moore
View AuthorThat's what I say, father. Whose wife?
Paul Morand
View AuthorComplete works crush the reader; they kill the authors and ruin the publishers.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
View AuthorNot a sublime intelligence, not a great imagination, nor both things together form genius; love, that is the soul of genius.
Enrique Múgica Herzog
View AuthorLonging is the path to becoming a pillar of salt.
Harry Mulisch
View AuthorA beginning never disappears, not even with an ending.
Harry Mulisch
View AuthorTranslating to American English, the phrase would be: 'Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like when you stroke someone's hair.'
Antonio Muñoz Molina
View AuthorTraducción al inglés americano: 'Reading is the only sovereign act we have left.'
Antonio Muñoz Molina
View AuthorLa traducción al inglés americano de la frase sería: 'The effects of love or tenderness are fleeting, but those of a mistake, a single mistake; they never end, like an incurable caveman disease.'