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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 67 words
Solitude seems to me to wear the best favour in such as have already employed their most active and flourishing age in the worlds service, after the example of Thales. We have lived enough for others; let us at least live out the small remnant of life for ourselves; let us now call in our thoughts and intentions to ourselves, and to our own ease and repose.
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