Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ✨ Essais by Mi…

Michel de Montaigne
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ✨ Essais by Michel de Montaigne, Chapter X, 1595.
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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. ✨ Essays by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.
When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1991). The essays of Michel de Montaigne, Lane, Allen
It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again. ✨ Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Co … ▶
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (2015). Essays of Montaigne, p.1257, Xist Publishing
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Essays

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