Quote #77
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.
More from Michel de Montaigne
- How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
- He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
- I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
- He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
- I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
- Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?
- Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.