Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

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

  3. I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

  4. I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

  5. Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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