The Greatest Thing in the World — Michel de Montaigne Quote Organic Sweatshirt

Everyone’s asleep. The dishes can wait. This hour asks nothing of you, and you’ve stopped apologizing for wanting it.

“The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.”
— Michel de Montaigne
Essais, Book I, Ch. XXXVIII, “Of Solitude,” 1580. Translated by Charles Cotton, 1685–86. We check every line against a primary source.

A few paragraphs earlier, he tells you to keep “a backshop, wholly our own and entirely free.” A back room no loss can reach.

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Pull it on when the house goes quiet.

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