“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
About This Quote
Most quotations of Montaigne come from the Essais. This came from Book II, Ch. 16. Full text: 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.
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