A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. ✨ Michel de Montai…

Michel de Montaigne
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1850). Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c, p.129
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Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.
To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958) … ▶
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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. ✨ Attributed to Essais by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.
The thing I fear most is fear. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.53, Stanford University Press

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1850). Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c, p.129

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