Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.


Book II, ch. 37. Of the Resemblance of Children to their Brothers - Essais (1595) - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.