Tao Te Ching

“Nature has presented us with a large faculty of entertaining ourselves alone: and often calls us to it, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but chiefly and mostly to ourselves.”

— Montaigne 1533 – 1592 CE via On giving the lie (tr: Colton and Hazlitt)
Grandfather of the Enlightenment
from Essays, French Essais