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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

Michel de Montaigne
Freedom, Men, Solitude

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Meditation, Solitude
'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 39

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

Michel de Montaigne
Ambition, Solitude, Mind

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Solitude, Lust

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Michel de Montaigne
Real, Solitude, Liberty
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.177, Stanford University Press

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Michel de Montaigne
Solitude, Made, Capacity
Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

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