Famous Quotes | Whatever I may be, I want to be...

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Of the Resemblance of Children to Fathers,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 37, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).

Categories: Education, Essayist, Ethics, Improvement

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