It is not enough to withdraw from the mob, not enough to go to another place: we have to withdraw from such attributes of the mob as are within us. It is our own self we have to isolate and take back into possession. – Montaigne
Tag Archives: Montaigne
Career change
Now the end I think is always the same: how to live in leisure at our ease. But people do not always seek the way properly. Often they think they have left their occupations behind when they have merely changed them. – Montaigne
We should set aside a room
We should set aside a room, just for ourselves, at the back of the shop, keeping it entirely free and establishing there our true liberty, our principal solitude and asylum. – Montaigne
Life must be its own objective
Life must be its own objective, its own purpose. – Montaigne
Noise and command
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak. – Montaigne