Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ours…

Michel de Montaigne
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Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1963). Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings
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Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1963). Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings

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