
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.Michel de Montaigne
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”
— MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
French Renaissance writer who popularized the essay as a literary form.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.Michel de Montaigne

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne
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