My real need does not so wholly take up all I have, that Fortune has n… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

My real need does not so wholly take up all I have, that Fortune has not whereon to fasten her teeth without biting to the quick. My presence, heedless and ignorant as it is, does me great service in my domestic affairs; I employ myself in them, but it goes against the hair, finding that I have this in my house, that though I burn my candle at one end by myself, the other is not spared.

Lugar: CHAPTER IX · ¶4512
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