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  1. A quotation from Montaigne

    And certainly a wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
     
    [Certes l’homme d’entendement n’a rien perdu, s’il a soy-mesme.]

    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
    Essays, Book 1, ch. 38 (1.38)), “Of Solitude [De la solitude]” (1572) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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  2. Wherever your life ends,
    it is all there.
    The advantage of living
    is not measured by length
    but by use.
    Some people have lived long
    and lived little.
    Attend to it while you are in it.
    It lies in your will,
    not in the number of years,
    for you to have lived enough.
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    #philosophy