Katriel

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is that above all which prevents us thinking about ourselves and leads is imperceptibly to destruction. But for that we should be bored, and boredom would drive us to seek some more solid means of escape, but diversion passes our time and brings us imperceptibly to our death.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal